January, 2007

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About Windows Presentation Foundation SDK

We are the Windows Presentation Foundation Devloper Content team. We create the documentation and samples that you find on MSDN. Please use this blog as a way to correspond directly with team members and provide feedback on our efforts.

Introduction
Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that provide notifications of when a property changes its value. These mechanisms come from several different feature areas: from data binding, from the WPF...

Although WPF animations are easy ( see earlier post ), that doesn't mean there aren't some tricky areas of animations you should be aware of. The WPF animation team and SDK just created a list of tips and tricks for working with animations that we will...

Currently, when you click on a link to download one of the Windows Presentation Foundation Samples , you go to the Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples page, which allows you to download all the samples at once. The problem is that when you are looking...

I’m in the middle of building a fun little WPF standalone Windows application that needs to build a project from the command-line, using msbuild.exe.
To do this, I’m using System.Diagnostics.Process to execute msbuild.exe in another process. The...

Creating animations in WPF is easier than it sounds. No explicit use of timers is required, in fact you can create many useful animations using pure markup (XAML). Perhaps the best use of animations is to spice up UI. Most properties of objects can be...

People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example, suppose you want all of your buttons in an application to have the same content. You can do something like this (As usual, this doesn’t make sense for a real...

One of the really cool features of WPF is its ability to place 2D content on 3D surfaces. For example, you can place a button control on a sphere or arrange images on a cube. However, w ith V1 of WPF, you couldn't interact with this 2D content. You could...

The Windows Presentation Foundation SDK provides a complete set of technical content that targets the core scenarios that are enabled by WPF. Of course, developers in the real world encounter a wide variety of interesting and not-so-common scenarios and...

If you haven't yet, and if you care about the performance of your apps, take a look at the Optimizing WPF Application Performance document. It's got a ton of great perf tips and information about the inner-workings of the platform.
As a side note,...